Hank Pym Was Almost Killed Off in ANT-MAN 3 But Would've Still Existed in a Bizarre Way

During the development of Ant-Man and The Wasp Quantumania, there was a point where the creative team was looking to kill off Michael Douglas’ character Hank Pym. This was the initial direction that they were going to take his story arc until the Marvel Studios executive decided to shut that idea down.

The screenwriter of the movie, Jeff Loveness, is the one who shared this little bit of trivia and explained how after Hank died, his consciousness would have lived on. He would have continued to exist in a bizarre way. The writer explained in an interview with Backstory Magazine:

"We were going to kill Hank at one point, and I was going to have him be, like, reanimated. His consciousness was going to live on through the ants, and he was going to be like mentally controlling them. Yeah, he was going to be almost like this hive mind of the ants, and I like that... that didn't go too far.”

Yeah, that would have been an interesting direction to take Hank Pym’s story! Loveness also shared another moment he wanted to include in the movie, which involved the introduction of a man-sized ant during one of the film's most intense moments. He shared:

"There was a psychological sequence in that probability storm, or that quantum nexus, there was more of a dream sequence element to it. I had like a big, like man-sized ant that was going to be almost like a ninja turtle, the way they looked in that 90s movie, not CGI, make it almost like a Cronenberg 'The Fly'-like Ant. And it was like in his head. I wanted it to be voiced by Werner Herzog and give it some sort of Holy Mountain kind of advice, some Vision Quest thing. That didn't get in."

That would have added some more weird fun to the movie! It’s interesting to learn about ideas like this that never make it into the movies!

Via: The Direct